Class _ErrorHolder

Lib/unittest/suite.py:340–376

Placeholder for a TestCase inside a result. As far as a TestResult is concerned, this looks exactly like a unit test. Used to insert arbitrary errors into a test suite run.

class _ErrorHolder(object):
    """
    Placeholder for a TestCase inside a result. As far as a TestResult
    is concerned, this looks exactly like a unit test. Used to insert
    arbitrary errors into a test suite run.
    """
    # Inspired by the ErrorHolder from Twisted:
    # http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/trial/runner.py

    # attribute used by TestResult._exc_info_to_string
    failureException = None

    def __init__(self, description):
        self.description = description

    def id(self):
        return self.description

    def shortDescription(self):
        return None

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<ErrorHolder description=%r>" % (self.description,)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.id()

    def run(self, result):
        # could call result.addError(...) - but this test-like object
        # shouldn't be run anyway
        pass

    def __call__(self, result):
        return self.run(result)

    def countTestCases(self):
        return 0

def _isnotsuite(test):
    "A crude way to tell apart testcases and suites with duck-typing"